President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

This, to quote our Vice President, is “a big f*****g deal.” What solution does Obama envision that would pay off for Putin so much that the Russians would agree to the “space” necessary by keeping quiet about US plans for its deployment? The only possible answer would be the dismantling of even the smaller missile-defense system to which Obama committed in 2009. And it looks as though Obama has already tipped his hand to the Russians — against whom this particular defense system would be mainly ineffective anyway — in exchange for political assistance to influence the election.

Obama won’t share these plans with the American people. However, he’ll share them with the Russians, and ask for their help in influencing the election. That should tell American voters all they need to know about this President.

Or perhaps not. What other nations has Obama asked for “space” on American foreign and national-security policy so that he can win a second term? And what American interests is Obama willing to trade for that “space”?

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Hotair has its fair share of people with paranoid theories about Obama like birtherism or him being a muslim. Yet, this clear evidence of the harm Obama will do to America if he is re-elected gets so few comments. I wonder if the people with paranoid ideas aren’t interested in real evidence, because it makes their crazy theories less important.

It is also disturbing to contemplate how many more comments there would be if the topic were gay marriage.

It put the hair up on my neck. I truly think he will steal the election and NEVER leave the WH.

I am officially scared of him.

ABO2012

herm2416 on March 26, 2012 at 11:25 AM

Won’t happen.

I’m not saying he won’t TRY it, but it won’t happen.

As I said (above), he’s not popular enough anymore for a populist coup to succeed. Plus, coups are NOT in our national or political nature.

If Obama rigs the election to the extent he’d have to in order to “win” or if he refused to LEAVE OFFICE in January, he’d not be ruling from the White House, he’d have to hide in some bunker somewhere from the US Military and pretty much everyone ELSE.

It’d be the shortest lived dictatorship in history.

wildcat72 on March 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM

Much easier for him to award citizenship to illegal aliens through executive order. That would mean democratics would rule the nation for a hundred years.

“Yet, this clear evidence of the harm Obama will do to America if he is re-elected gets so few comments.”

The most vocal readers are already occupied with other much more important Presidential issues, like making sure we all know how much they hate Mitt Romney. Because, you know, choosing a President based on how proud you feel when you vote for them has produced such awesome results thus far.

The biggest problem I see with Obama and his followers is, the man honestly thinks he has a clue. There’s nothing worse than a person in power who has absolutely no clue about the reality in which he operates. Obama’s certainty despite the serious depths of his ignorance is frightening.

Yet another feather on the cap for Obama to show that he’s a huckster plain and simple. He’s willing to sell out the defense of our nation and allies just so he can get elected again; remarkably pathetic. A Ronald Reagan this man is not!

“Obama writes an anti-war article for Columbia University’s magazine, Sundial. ‘Breaking the War Mentality’ contains grammatical errors, atrocious punctuation, bad spelling, and contradictory statements. …In the article Obama bemoans the fact that the military’s introduction of additional Pershing II and Cruise Missiles will ‘cut down (the) warning time for the Soviets to less than ten minutes,’ suggesting that Obama apparently prefers a U.S. policy that gives the Soviets as much advance warning as possible in order to provide them with a better chance of defeating the United States.”

I don’t see what the big deal here is. The president is just saying he’ll be out of a job after the election, freeing up more time for yoga. Everyone knows what a fitness buff Putin is, so Medvedev is probably just supposed to tell Putin he should prepare for a friendly fencing match or something.

In a sane world, this should be the end of his presidency. That comment, caught on tape, is that of a US President promising to a known enemy of this country, the dismantling the defensive posture of the US. He is exchanging a rhetorical cease fire during his election campaign for a capitulation following re-election.

How about it MSM? You going to show your true communist colors again, or are you going to commit a random act of journalism and report this to the extent it deserves?

The Russians are a regional force, at best. To even take these third world beggars seriously is a joke. The question at hand is not wether we should build this missle shield, we should. The question is why are we elevating the Russians as equals. At the height of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan told them we werent about just matching them we were about defeating them.That is the difference between this President and all the other ones before him. He wants to see this country split from its natural allies. The Poles, Chechs, Hungarians, any former members of the Warsaw Pact. They know first hand what communism can do to a society.
Obama was raised by Communists. His parents met in a Russian language class. In the 1950s You took Russian for one of three reasons: Your family backround was Russian, you wanted to work for the State dept./CIA or you wanted to be a better communist.His folks were not Russian and they did not work for the State Dept/CIA.
Treason is an ugly word but it is the only word that fits.